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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Home Office wasted nearly £100m on plans to house asylum seekers, watchdog finds

Robert Jenrick getting out of a car
Robert Jenrick backed plans for the ‘rushed and misjudged’ £15m purchase of the asbestos-ridden former airbase HMP Northeye, the report said. Photograph: Uwe Deffner/Alamy

The Home Office’s plans to house asylum seekers reveal a “dysfunctional culture of repeated mistakes and weak internal challenge” that wasted nearly £100m, parliament’s spending watchdog has concluded.

A Public Accounts Committee report said the department had a “troubling culture that repeatedly wastes public money” after examining the acquisition of the £15.4m HMP Northeye site to house new arrivals.

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